FIFA boss Sepp Blatter has praised Australia's bid for the 2022 World Cup, suggesting the lack of controversy surrounding it to be a strength.

With voting for hosting rights to be decided in less than a fortnight on December 2 in Zurich, Blatter said Australia's lack of representation on the FIFA executive committee should not harm its chances.

Following Oceania boss Reynald Temarii's banning this week from voting because of bribery allegations, Football Federation Australia was in need of some good news.

And Blatter delivered some heartening words.

Australia is the only bidding country not represented on the 22-man executive committee that will determine the hosts of the 2018 and 2022 tournaments next month.

Blatter thought it might not be a bad thing for Australia to be free of such ties.

"I don't think so...when you don't speak too much about a candidature, it means that it is a good one," Blatter said in Zurich.

"But I can't see that (because) there is no representative from Australia, that Australia has less of a chance than the others".

Australia has gone to great lengths to win over Blatter's support, the FIFA president will cast the deciding vote if it is locked at 11-11 between the final two bidding nations.

Julia Gillard last month made a fleeting visit to Blatter at FIFA headquarters in Switzerland on her first overseas trip as Prime Minister to shore up his support.

Temarii was one of the few locked-in votes for Australia but that was lost when he and Nigerian Amos Adamu were kicked off the voting panel following last month's British newspaper sting.

South Korea, Japan, the United States and Qatar are all competing against Australia to hold the tournament in 12 years' time.

Qatar's bid was hit this week by FIFA concerns surrounding the stifling heat in that country in June.

There has also been a shadow over Qatar's bid following allegations of vote swapping with 2018 co-candidates Portugal and Spain.

Blatter hinted that FIFA would avoid such issues in the future by not holding concurrent bids.

"Now we have to have a look at how to act in the future to avoid such situations, definitely this is an item which is now under scrutiny," he said.